Psalms 104

Verse 1. Alleluia. Give glory to the Lord, and call upon his name: declare his deeds among the Gentiles.

Verse 2. Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: relate all his wondrous works.

Verse 3. Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.

Verse 4. Seek ye the Lord, and be strengthened: seek his face evermore.

Verse 5. Remember his marvellous works which he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth.

Verse 6. O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen.

Verse 7. He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.

Verse 8. He hath remembered his covenant for ever: the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.

Verse 9. Which he made to Abraham; and his oath to Isaac:

Verse 10. And he appointed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting testament:

Verse 11. Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the lot of your inheritance.

Verse 12. When they were but a small number: yea very few, and sojourners therein:

Verse 13. And they passed from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people.

Verse 14. He suffered no man to hurt them: and he reproved kings for their sakes.

Verse 15. Touch ye not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets.

Verse 16. And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all the support of bread.

Verse 17. He sent a man before them: Joseph, who was sold for a slave.

Verse 18. They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron pierced his soul,

Verse 19. Until his word came. The word of the Lord inflamed him.

Verse 20. The king sent, and he released him: the ruler of the people, and he set him at liberty.

Verse 21. He made him master of his house, and ruler of all his possession.

Verse 22. That he might instruct his princes as himself, and teach his ancients wisdom.

Verse 23. And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Cham.

Verse 24. And he increased his people exceedingly: and strengthened them over their enemies,

Verse 25. He turned their heart to hate his people: and to deal deceitfully with his servants.

Verse 26. He sent Moses his servant: Aaron the man whom he had chosen.

Verse 27. He gave them power to shew his signs, and his wonders in the land of Cham.

Verse 28. He sent darkness, and made it obscure: and grieved not his words.

Verse 29. He turned their waters into blood, and destroyed their fish.

Verse 30. Their land brought forth frogs, in the inner chambers of their kings.

Verse 31. He spoke, and there came divers sorts of flies and sciniphs in all their coasts.

Verse 32. He gave them hail for rain, a burning fire in the land.

Verse 33. And he destroyed their vineyards and their fig trees: and he broke in pieces the trees of their coasts.

Verse 34. He spoke, and the locust came, and the bruchus, of which there was no number.

Verse 35. And they devoured all the grass in their land, and consumed all the fruit of their ground.

Verse 36. And he slew all the firstborn in their land: the firstfruits of all their labour.

Verse 37. And he brought them out with silver and gold: and there was not among their tribes one that was feeble.

Verse 38. Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them lay upon them.

Verse 39. He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to give them light in the night.

Verse 40. They asked, and the quail came: and he filled them with the bread of heaven.

Verse 41. He opened the rock, and waters flowed: rivers ran down in the dry land.

Verse 42. Because he remembered his holy word, which he had spoken to his servant Abraham.

Verse 43. And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness.

Verse 44. And he gave them the lands of the Gentiles: and they possessed the labours of the people:

Verse 45. That they might observe his justifications, and seek after his law.